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It’s been 15 years since a universal treaty was adopted to fight human trafficking. What’s happened in that time? Here is a timeline…
A lot has transpired from 2000 when the United Nations passed, at the Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons…to this year–2015–when we saw two important initiatives–both Britain’s Modern Slavery Act and the United Nation’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Goals.
What began as an invitation to work as a caregiver for four children living in the U.K. turned into what Loretta now knows as a form of modern slavery. Luckily Loretta was brave enough to find a way out and she shared her story of survival in a recent interview with the BBC. “When we got to airport, her behavior changed...” Loretta was working at an IVF clinic in Nigeria when a client approached her with an offer to move with them to the U.K. and
| Thursday May 2, 2024
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